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This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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abnercoimbre wrote: post #25
01284a7e wrote: post #16

I see why someone hired you (prestige), I see why someone fired you (terrible communicator, egoistical, lack of professionalism/tactless). The tactlessness is just awful. I would consider deleting that post.

Also why is he putting the company on blast but also sounding super duper grateful to them?

i am grateful. they paid me. commensurate to all of our aligned expectations. as elon recently said in the Economist interview: "i don't think i've said many inaccurate things i can predict my future quite well."

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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KaiserPro wrote: post #10

Im not really sure what you are wanting to communicate here? is it that you need a new job and this is the hook? or do you have some insight into better ways of being letgo/fired/parted ways with? its also not clear how long you were there for? (i'm not in the business of stalking people on linkedin)

thank you for expressing your uncertainty by commenting KaiserPro

some of us CEO types gotta grind and stalk on linkedin until the people come to us haha

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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firefoxd wrote: post #20

I feel for you, getting fired is pretty terrible, and and everyone assumes you did something bad to earn it. But you forgot to say a few things in your post: Hey everyone, I made an expensive move and changed my life for a job, and it didn't work out. In fact, I got fired. If anyone is looking for someone with experience in X Y and Z, I'm your guy. Reading the title, I thought the company did something horrible to yo…

this is the next post. thanks. yes it's queued for tomorrow if you can wait that long and subscribe.

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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gjsman-1000 wrote: post #3

Happens. I worked at a startup that offered to triple my equity if I stayed a full four years, a special offer to me for seven months of excellent performance. Four months later, growth below projections, they laid me off 19 days before my 1 year cliff. 3/9ths of the engineering team, gone. The lesson I’ve learned is to never, ever, put long hours into a startup you don’t own. Ever.

dam thats dark i'd want my employees grinding and loving it. like Richie: $10M to $400M+ topline in one year and their culture seems healthy

https://aiosmedical.notion.site/working-at-aios https://www.linkedin.com/posts/richard-cartwright_40x-in-12m...

disclosure he's my friend and i already re-posted this to linkedin

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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SoftTalker wrote: post #5
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #3

Happens. I worked at a startup that offered to triple my equity if I stayed a full four years, a special offer to me for seven months of excellent performance. Four months later, growth below projections, they laid me off 19 days before my 1 year cliff. 3/9ths of the engineering team, gone. The lesson I’ve learned is to never, ever, put long hours into a startup you don’t own. Ever.

Even you you had cleared the cliff the equity is going to end up worthless 90% of the time. Equity is a carrot that you usually never get, like the donkey you just keep chasing it.

equity is ownership, period.

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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0x3f wrote: post #11
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #3

Happens. I worked at a startup that offered to triple my equity if I stayed a full four years, a special offer to me for seven months of excellent performance. Four months later, growth below projections, they laid me off 19 days before my 1 year cliff. 3/9ths of the engineering team, gone. The lesson I’ve learned is to never, ever, put long hours into a startup you don’t own. Ever.

When you say own you mean fractionally, or founder level share only? The thing is even if you 'have' the equity share as an employee, you might never get liquidity. And (super obviously) most startups fail. So even if you have a decent chunk of 'ownership', you really, _really_ need to believe in it to be working those hours. I'm talking the kind of belief built on your specialist and insider knowledge about why it's…

most people do not understand the underlying value of the securities they hold.

Re: This July I Was Fired from Simple AI (A Deeply YC Company)

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triyambakam wrote: post #15

It's hard to tell what is sincere vs sarcastic here

yes that is my writing style. it is in fact the writing style of Donald Trump too. in person we are different i promise. as someone who ran both Presidential Scholars for Obama and Trump White House showcasing the INTEL ISEF math olympiad kids to Melania and Michelle, they are all great in person. i cannot speak to Biden and the rest.

give people hugs, as tim ferriss says

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